Bottle



(No Model.)

W. R. HARTIGAN.

BOTTLE.

No. 568,613 Petented Sept. 29, 1896.

Inventor- Witnesses:

Attorney.

UNITED STATES v PATENT OFFICE.

WVILLIAM R. I-IARTIGAN, OF BURLINGTON, CONNECTICUT.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,613, dated September 29, 1896.

Application filed June 2'7, 1894. fierial No. 515,870. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

. Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. HARTIGAN, a citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding at Burlington, in the county of Hart embodying said improvement.

The object and purpose of the improvement is the production of a bottle or like vessel which cannot be refilled after the original charge of liquid has been poured out.

The letter Ct denotes the body of the vessel or bottle proper, and (9 denotes the neck thereof, in the mouth of which a cork or other stopper may be fixed.

The lettero denotes a valve-cage containing the ball-valve d and its seat below it. Above the valve the cage is formed into a dome obstructing the bottle-neck against the escape of the valve and preventing improper access thereto, but permitting the outward flow of liquid through perforations c.

'The original charge of liquid is placed in the bottle before the valve-cage is set to place.

A mode of securing the valve-cage in place is to provide an annular groove in the periphery of the valve-cage, a corresponding annular groove in the inner face of the bottleneck, and a ringe of rubber. or other elastic material fitting these two grooves. By the use of this arrangement the valve-cage can be pressed downward into place where it will be held by the rubber ring. The dome of the valve-cage is so thin that if it be attempted to pull the valve-cage from its seat the dome will break and thus destroy the integrity of the seal.

The word bottle, as used herein, means any vessel to which this improvement is applicable, and the word rubber means any material which will serve the purpose of the rubber.

I claim as my improvement- The bottle a formed with a neck having an interior ann ular groove therein and an interior annular shoulder located below the annular groove, a valve-case formed with an exterior annular groove located and arranged to aline with the annular groove in the neck of the bottle the said valve-case being constructed to accurately fit-the neck of the bottle and to be seated and sustained on the interior annular shoulder thereof, wherebya liquid-tight joint is formed to protect a packing in the said groove, the said valve-case being also formed with an integral fragile dome rising from the base of the valve-case and having apertures therein, a ball-valve in the valve-case, and an elastic ring to engage in the alined grooves of the valve-case and the neckof the bottle,. all combined, constructed and arranged as and for the purpose specified.

. WILLIAM R. HARTIGAN.

\Vitnesses:

F. V. BROWN, STEPHEN J. LYON. 

